Getting rid of Ad Choices
I'm having Ad Choices links mid page, yet have no installed software (plug-ins/extensions) that should be linked to that. Any suggestions on cleaning the browsers or disabling that function somehow? I...
View ArticleEndpoint protection in low bandwidth areas
We currently McAfee for our AV, and it's very difficult keeping it updated for our remote users in Africa. For example the install package requires over 100MB to be downloaded. These users typically...
View ArticleRemoving Kaspersky 6
I've recently migrated from Kaspersky 6 to Vipre, but the automated removal tool provided by Vipre has missed a few things. The kavremover tool provided by Kaspersky has a captcha thing and can't be...
View ArticleKaspersky 6 -> 10 upgrade nightmare
Upgrading from KAV6 to KAV10. 10 servers, 30 workstations. What we thought would be an easy roll-out has become a huge time sink. The only reason we stuck with Kaspersky over something like NOD32 was...
View ArticleReviewing the company's current AV scheme
Hey everyone,Our company currently has around 60 users; each with a PC running AVG Anti-Virus Business Edition 2012. It's administered centrally, by me, from one of our servers. Within the next few...
View ArticleSome people I tell ya
I had a supposedly IT person try and tell me that FREE AV's are just as good as the paid ones. One client even said all of a sudden she was getting pop ups. He said oh change your pop up settings...
View ArticleVipre/webroot/sophos/symantec Antivirus solutions
We are currently trying to make a final decision on an AV solution. Currently we are running Symantec, but exploring other possibilities. I am slowly leaning toward either Sophos or Vipre as they...
View ArticleA user I know recently was hit with the Cryptolocker virus.
I have been cleaning things up for several days now and I keep finding these autorun.ini files as shown below:[autorun]open=siaajak.exeaction=1976useautoplay=1Any idea what this is? I have searched...
View ArticleBitdefender Cloud Security
Hey,I'm in charge of security for 3 basic companies. Not very big in size but never the less need decent AV protection. One of the companies within the 3 was running Kaspersky Endpoint Business Select,...
View Articlehow are you doing with kaspersky?
for us, management nightmare!for one thing, it gets in the way (with us) with some apps we use. second, their technical support is sub-standard.my problem now is what AV solution i can replace it with...
View ArticleConficker going to send me to an early grave...
Ok I am fresh out of ideas really on how to track down what appears to be Conficer activity behind our firewall!!!Story thus far... Blocked by CBL saying we have CONFICKER activity behind our...
View ArticleTrend Micro WFBS
I have Trend Micro WFBS 8.0 hosted on one of my server, well actually used too. The server crashed and all info on that server is gone. I have trend reloaded on another server, but that server does...
View ArticleMalware installed on new computers joining the domain
Hello,I am experiencing an issue as of this morning that I hope I can get some suggestions into. I am running Windows 2008 Server. When I do a first login after joining it to the domain, the malware is...
View ArticleBest solution / product for remote malware / security scanning?
Hi,I've been getting a lot of notifications as of late from our Barracuda firewalls regarding "Malicious sites" and "spyware" detections and the like. Most of these are at our remote sites and this is...
View ArticleAvast Anti-Virus No Internet Access
We use Avast Endpoint Protection (Avast free Edu program) and we are having an issue where users will get 'This Page Cannot Be Displayed' error message for any website, however https sites do work. If...
View ArticleAnti Virus for Embedded Version of Windows
A little background. We are a manufacturing company that has all of its CNC machines networked. They need to talk to a file server on the network to send and receive programs so full out isolation is...
View ArticleAntivirus Recommendations
We are looking at our options for antivirus software. Our current software is Avast Pro, which I like a lot; however, we are considering either upgrading to Avast Endpoint Protection Suite or looking...
View ArticleAvast antivirus Pro free for education
We are considering to start using Avast antivirus Pro, since is free for education. Any pros, cons, comments and suggestions about this product will be appreciated and help us to make the right...
View ArticleVirus problem
I am working on a computer at a local school and it has a virus on it that wipes the data of the USB sticks that gets inserted into it. I cant scan with any of my utilities (Malwarebyte etc.) because...
View ArticleLumension Antivirus v. TrendMicro
We have been running TrendMicro AV now for many years. It seems to do it's job, but I do hate the console/notifications. Recently we purchased Lumension Endpoint Management Suite and got their AV...
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